Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada.

• Editor’s Introduction[Temenuga Trifonova] 1. The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen[Adrian Ivakhiv] 2. Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality[Paul Coates] 3. The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime[James Kirwan]4. Of Fake and Real Sublimes[Temenuga Trifonova] 5. ‘Black and Glittering’: The Inscrutable Sublime[Barbara Stafford] 6. Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity[Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe] 7. Recentering The Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches[Elizabeth Oldfather]8. Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime[Lyuba Encheva]9. The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime[Ksenia Fedorova] 10. From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime[Hannah Goodwin]11. Feeling Not at Home in the 21st Century World: The Sublime in Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics[Sandra Shapshay] 12. The Sublime in Environmental Photography[Damian Sutton] 13. Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema[Stella Hockenhull]14. Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime[Joseph Gabriel]15. The Birds and the Bees: The Gendering of the Sublime[Bill Beckley]

"This collection brings the sublime back to where it belongs, the centre of modern critical thinking in fields that are much broader than that of philosophy and art history. It helps understand why we need the sublime as a transdisciplinary toolset that brings together issues of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cultural policy, and digital culture." --Jan Baetens, University of Leuven